Because we are all Monks and our place of work is a seminary, our work a sacrament, our family a monastery, our home a sanctuary;
may we learn what they are teaching us without believing God is elsewhere...

Friday, March 20, 2015

Chasing Cloud Shadows

Let us turn in prayer to the Saviour of all men. By dying he destroyed our death and by rising he restored our life.Universalis Prayer

Once we ran like spring rains pushing through stones in the creek out back, our small selves stretching their limits through the rye's greening gloss and March wind's rumpus shoving the long lines of trees still standing in their winter: racing my brother against the even gravity, the borders of each other, together against cloud shadows' advance and passing into the pastured light ahead like dark- leveling sickles through our childhood game and moment's brume.